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They call it "the switch." Alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called baclofen say the drug allows them to resist the most powerful triggers of relapse: former drinking buddies, a favorite bar, the sight of alcohol or even the most potent drinking cue of all, having a single drink...
...boycott of goods advertised on state-controlled television. Just try buying a certain brand of dairy product, an Iranian human-rights activist told me, and the person behind you in line is likely to whisper, "Don't buy that. It's from an advertiser." It includes calls to switch on every electric appliance in the house just before the evening TV news to trip up Tehran's grid. It features quickie "blitz" street demonstrations, lasting just long enough to chant "Death to the dictator!" several times but short enough to evade security forces. It involves identifying paramilitary Basij vigilantes linked...
...Today is a historic day for Africa and marks the dawn of a new era for communications between the continent and the rest of the world," SEACOM Chief Executive Brian Herlihy said in a statement marking the launch. "Turning the switch on creates a huge anticipation but, ultimately, SEACOM will be judged on the changes that take place on the continent over the coming years...
...Thursday, after many delays, it finally happened. Officials announced they had flipped the switch on a cable that gets its name from the Mauritius-based telecoms company that owns it, SEACOM. The 10,560-mile (17,000-km) line running from Europe and India down the East African coast can deliver 1.28 terabits of data per second, good enough for streaming video, Internet phone calls, gargantuan downloads and all the other services people have so long done without in these parts. (See photos of struggle and triumph in Africa...
...might be specious to suggest that Acta could have just flipped a switch to become a better manager and save his job—except that this very logic is necessary to substantiate the belief that managers do make a difference. Take, for example, Joe Maddon, the celebrated manager of the Tampa Bay Rays. In his third year in Tampa, Maddon took the Rays to the World Series—after finishing dead last his first two years. Maddon is now regarded as one of the league’s best, because he succeeded in flipping that switch...